The Archives Unleashed Project: Technology, Process, and Community to Improve Scholarly Access to Web Archives

dc.contributor.authorRuest, Nick
dc.contributor.authorLin, Jimmy
dc.contributor.authorMilligan, Ian
dc.contributor.authorFritz, Samantha
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-27T13:59:04Z
dc.date.available2020-05-27T13:59:04Z
dc.date.issued2020-08
dc.description.abstractThe Archives Unleashed project aims to improve scholarly access to web archives through a multi-pronged strategy involving tool creation, process modeling, and community building -- all proceeding concurrently in mutually --reinforcing efforts. As we near the end of our initially-conceived three-year project, we report on our progress and share lessons learned along the way. The main contribution articulated in this paper is a process model that decomposes scholarly inquiries into four main activities: filter, extract, aggregate, and visualize. Based on the insight that these activities can be disaggregated across time, space, and tools, it is possible to generate "derivative products", using our Archives Unleashed Toolkit, that serve as useful starting points for scholarly inquiry. Scholars can download these products from the Archives Unleashed Cloud and manipulate them just like any other dataset, thus providing access to web archives without requiring any specialized knowledge. Over the past few years, our platform has processed over a thousand different collections from over two hundred users, totaling around 300 terabytes of web archives.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, as well as Start Smart Labs, Compute Canada, the University of Waterloo, and York University. We’d like to thank Jeremy Wiebe, Ryan Deschamps, and Gursimran Singh for their contributions.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1145/3383583.3398513en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/37506
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherACM/IEEEen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJoint Conference on Digital Libraries;2020
dc.rights.articlehttps://doi.org/10.1145/3383583.3398513en_US
dc.subjectApache Sparken_US
dc.subjecttechnology adoptionen_US
dc.subjectcloud platformen_US
dc.subjectInformation systems~Digital libraries and archivesen_US
dc.subjectweb archivesen_US
dc.titleThe Archives Unleashed Project: Technology, Process, and Community to Improve Scholarly Access to Web Archivesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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